Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.

Directed by: Edward Bland
Runtime: 34 minutes
Cast:
George Waller George Waller
Alex Johnson 
Dorothea Horton Dorothea Horton
Natalie 
Andrew Duncan Andrew Duncan
John 
Leroy Inman Leroy Inman
Louis 
James Miller James Miller
Bob